Bernd, Didn't know of the PL/1 popularity in Europe, interesting.
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote: > We are a big insurance company in Germany, and we do PL/1 until today. > We also do ASM and C, but no COBOL - never. > > I heard some years ago that only about 5 % of the mainframe programs are PL/1, > compared to 80 % COBOL. Don't know, if the numbers are correct. Most PL/1 > users are in southern Germany (where we are) and Japan. > > I also heard that we in Germany (or Europe) spell it PL/1, but in the other > places it's called PL/I. > > Kind regards > > Bernd > > > > Am 18.01.2012 00:22, schrieb Roberts, John J: >> >> I was a PL/I developer around 1972. I loved it with BASED variables and >> STRING types. But up in Canada it really fell out of favor after about >> 1975. A lot of people were trying to do apps that were pretty marginal on >> the 370/158's of the day. So a lot of customers did COBOL or ASM, not PL/I. >> PL/I was reputed to have a 30% disadvantage compared to PL/I. My old >> employer the Bank of Montreal did its retail banking system in CICS/ASM and >> its Mortgage system in COBOL. >> >> When I visited the IBM Hursley Lab in 1976 I was told that PL/I had only >> really caught on in Europe. >> >> No doubt once they got past the "F" compiler and onto the many Optimizing >> Compilers things must have improved. I wonder if there is a present-day >> benchmark comparison? >> >> Also, is it PL/1 or PL/I? >> >> John >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
